“On December the 12th of 2017, you shocked the nation,” Democratic former Senator Doug Jones told a raucous crowd in Birmingham on Friday evening. “You shocked the country. You shocked the world.”
That was when Jones — a former U.S. attorney who successfully prosecuted the long-dormant case of a 1963 KKK church bombing that killed four African-American girls — defeated GOP former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in a special U.S. Senate election. Moore had the backing of President Trump and was widely considered the favorite in the deep red state.
But justice won out that night.
And now Jones is hoping to make history again in the Yellowhammer State by launching his gubernatorial campaign against the man who now occupies that Senate seat. That’s Republican former football coach Tommy Tuberville, who The New Republic crowned “The Dumbest Senator of the Year” in 2023.
Jones is running a campaign to unite people during a time when even many of Trump’s diehard supporters are suffering from his economy marked by chaos, tariffs, and inflation.
“I have always believed that the people of Alabama had more in common than to divide us,” Jones said.
Get the inside look into Doug Jones’ campaign from his longtime friend and advisor, Joe Trippi, as well as insights from Rick Wilson.
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